As you may have seen on Instagram we decdied to change our name from @twopoofsandapudding to @the_lincolnshaws. When we started the account and this blog we didn’t know what child would be part of this family. A boy/girl, baby, toddler or even a teenager. Sine the Adoption order was granted, we have been speaking a …
We were invited to a press event to showcase the new Duplo Valley which opened at Legoland this month. We weren’t asked to put this on Instagram or the blog but to come along and experience the new zone.
And what a year it was! 2019 was a mental year, a year we made many memories we will treasure forever. Not only did we become dads to our amazing baby boy we WON a wedding at the beautiful Peckforton Castle. 23-year-old Tim If you asked a 23-year-old Tim, who was still living at home …
As we celebrated our first Christmas as a family it was the last one to be celebrated in the 2010s. If you had asked me back in 2009 how I would be celebrating Christmas in 2019 I would not have said with my husband and child. I would probably have said still at home with …
Disclaimer: We were gifted an all-Day pass with additional Ragdoll & The Tiger Who came to tea tickets. This review wasn’t part of the gifted experience We decided to get the train to Stratford instead of messing about with the traffic and parking. Plus Pudding loves a train journey. From where we live, getting to …
I’ve been reading this book to Pudding all week and he has loved it. The Blanket Bears, by Samuel Langley-Swain, is a book aimed at adoptive families with young children as a soft and sensitive warm up to life story work. The Plot The book is about two little bears who were left outside a …
#WorldAdoptionDay is held on the 9th of November every year to celebrate blended families. It’s a day to raise awareness for adoption. Both Darran and I are well and truly behind this amazing day. How to Get Involved We are inviting you to a global celebration of adoption and everyone touched by adoption. This year, …
The little dude’s party prep is well underway. Pudding turns 3 on December 12th and we’re having his party on December 7th. We wanted to make this birthday special as this is probably the first ‘proper’ birthday he has had so far. He spent his first birthday with his birth mum, and we guess not …
On Saturday, we were invited to celebrate Xander’s (Madlads) third birthday at ‘Party Pod’ in Kent. This was the first official party invite he has received. EVER (we think) It all started Friday night when we were rushing around Asda and Tesco trying to find a Halloween costume that Pudding would wear. We weren’t sure …
Unlike Darran who is a massive birthday fan and wants to go all out, I’m not really a fan. I mean, you get one every year. what’s the big fuss all about? This year was slightly different though. This year I celebrated my first birthday as a DAD! Work The day started like most days. …
Yesterday was the day that pudding re-connected with his brother since moving in with us, and boy was it an emotional one. We started the day well, Darran’s mum and dad surprised him on Friday so it was a late one Friday night for Darran (3 am)! we all got up, had breakfast and Bampa …
Growing up I never really celebrated Father’s Day because my birth dad was never really around. Today was probably the first time I realised how precious little moments like today can be. Celebrating our very first Father’s Day felt so special. When I was younger I used to dream about becoming a father and used …
As I write this, Pudding has been with us for 6 weeks but it feels like he has been with us ever since he was born.
Back in 2002 living with my Aunt and Uncle, who I now class as my parents. I felt it was time to come out to them. Being 18 it was so hard to tell them the real me. I decided to write it down in a letter and ‘move out’. When my parents called me on my Nokia 3210 (so cool back then). It was so scary the thought of answering the phone, but I did and they asked me to come home to discuss ‘the letter’. I’m literally freaking out!!!
